The Age Book of the Year Winners

The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since ...more

Winners

	1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 261 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor 3.35 avg rating — 845 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovesong by Alex Miller 3.61 avg rating — 1,652 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam 3.29 avg rating — 1,557 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Journeys by Don Watson 3.81 avg rating — 328 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friendly Fire: Poems by Jennifer Maiden 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett 3.75 avg rating — 1,244 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totem: Poems by Luke Davis 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM by Don Watson 4.28 avg rating — 444 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untold Lives & Later Poems by Rosemary Dobson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isobel on the way to the corner shop by Amy Witting 3.88 avg rating — 180 ratings The Age Book of the Year (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman 3.58 avg rating — 1,317 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack Maggs by Peter Carey 3.69 avg rating — 4,143 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The multiple effects of rainshadow by Thea Astley 3.87 avg rating — 125 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery 4.20 avg rating — 886 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey 3.62 avg rating — 1,072 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Georges' wife by Elizabeth Jolley 3.56 avg rating — 43 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovers' Knots by Marion Halligan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patrick White: A Life by David Marr 4.47 avg rating — 219 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blessed City: The Letters Of Gwen Harwood To Thomas Riddell by Gwen Harwood 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1990)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and <I>H. M. S. Beagle</I> in Australia 1837��1843 by Marsden Hordern 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1989)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse 3.57 avg rating — 58 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1988)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Propinquity by John Macgregor (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1987)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories From The Warm Zone and Sydney Stories by Jessica Anderson 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1987)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Ships and Other Stories by Joan London 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1986)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illywhacker by Peter Carey 3.77 avg rating — 2,931 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1985)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bellarmine Jug by Nicholas Hasluck 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings The Age Book of the Year (1984)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars